美国学生学习文学现状

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1.William Dean Howells: middle class, The Rise of Silas Lapham p.116-122

2.Henry James: rich class, international theme, psychological descriptions, The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The American, Daisy Miller p124-126

3.Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens, lower class, local colorism, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, The Gilded Age p. 130-140

4.Stephen Crane: pioneer writing in the naturalistic tradition, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage p.141-145

5.Frank Norris: McTeague, the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel, a case study of the inevitable effect of environment and heredity on human lives

6.Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, An American Tragedy p.147-150

7.Jack London: The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden

8.O Henry: short story writer, the American Maupassant, surprise endings, “The Gift of the Magi”, “The Cop and the Anthem”

Modernism (1918-1945)—Disillusionment of the American Dream

1.Imagist poetry: imagism, direct treatment of the thing, use as few words as possible p.154-161

2.Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”, The Cantos, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley p. 163-169

3.T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land p.171-182

4.Wallace Stevens: “Anecdote of the Jar”, “The Idea of Order at Key West” p.183

5.William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow” p. 189-191

6.Robert Frost: New England poet, “The Road Not Taken”, “Mending Wall”, “After Apple-picking” p. 195-200

7.Modernist Novels: the Lost Generation

8.F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, the Jazz age p. 213-220

9.Ernest Hemingway: the Lost Generation, Hemingway hero, iceberg theory, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea p.220-228

10.William Faulkner: the Southern Renaissance/myth, Yoknapatawpha, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, stream of consciousness 1949 Nobel Prize winner p.229-232

11.Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio; describing the grotesque

12.Sinclair Lewis: Main Street, sociological writer, first American Nobel Prize winner, (1930)

13.Willa Cather: female writer, writing about the Old West in traditional way, My Antonio

14.John Dos Passos: 1930s, Depression, U.S.A. p.254-264

15.John Steinbeck: 1930s, Depression, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl p.265-268

16.Drama: A renaissance of drama in 1920s—Eugene O’Neill, The theatre of the Depression in 1930s

17.Eugene O’Neill: American dram began in 1916 when O’Neil’s first play Bound East for Cardiff was proced, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night

18.Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman